"I think it would be tough to lay 2500 ft. of pipe in one sitting."
- Professor Ferguson -
"Don't treat someone like a priority when they treat you like an option"
"I can't trust a man who doesn't drink, because a man who doesn't drink doesn't trust himself."
- Hemingway -
"If by supporting the rights of mankind I shall save from the agonies of death one unfortunate victim of tyranny, or of ignorance, equally fatal, his blessings will be sufficient consolation to me for the contempt of all mankind."
- John Adams - (quoting the Marquis of Beccaria)
"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
- C. S. Lewis -
"If you want truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease."
- Sent-ts'an -
"The defining character of American constitutional government is its constant tension between security and liberty, serving both by partial helpings of each."
- Justice Souter -
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires, than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
- Aristotle -
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.â€
-Justice Robert Jackson, Chief Prosecutor Nuremberg Trials -